For the uninitiated, it might seem quite obvious that research in second language acquisition is of relevance to the profession of language teaching. Yet in reality this relationship is not very clear, especially in terms of more formal approaches to second language acquisition and Chomskyan ...
A defining moment in the history of generative research on language acquisition was the advent of the Principles and Parameters (P&P) approach (Chomsky 1981). Generative research on second-language (L2) acquisition was no different in this regard, but there was a distinct twist: The L2 researc...
Differences between Second Language Learning and First Language Acquisition This paper explores the differences between the first language acquisition and the second language learning and its limitations. According to Krashen, first language (L1) acquisition is the process of natural assimilation, whereas ...
Explaining why some linguistic features and constructions are easy or difficult to acquire in a second language has become a prominent current concern in generative second language acquisition (SLA) research. Based on a comparison of findings on the L2 acquisition of functional morphology, syntax, the...
The (roughly) biannual Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference is an international venue for research based in generative approaches to nonnative language (L2) acquisition (henceforth, I will use term GASLA to refer to this research paradigm rather than to the conference). ...
1.A linguistic theory that attempts to describe a native speaker's tacit grammatical knowledge by a system of rules that specify all of the well-formed, or grammatical, sentences of a language while excluding all ungrammatical, or impossible, sentences. ...
What is meant by second language acquisition? What is textuality in linguistics? What does diachronic mean? What is the scope of syntax in linguistics? What does downstage right mean? What is immediate constituent analysis in linguistics?
The second issue concerns language acquisition. It is impossible, O'Grady argued, to account for how children select the appropriate parameter values from the scarce primary data without a powerful, pattern-sensitive device external to language but connected to language. O'Grady concluded that, ...
ISBN 0631191836/0631191844.Roger Hawkins’ ambitious aim is to ‘provide an introduction, overview and cri-tical evaluation’ (p. xv) of work in the second language acquisition of syntax, withthe theoretical underpinning of the generative approach, thus supporting ‘the viewthat learners build ...
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